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Martin From Canada12 Apr 2017 10:09 a.m. PST

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COLUMBUS, Ohio—An unusual fossil find is giving scientists new ideas about how some of the earliest animals on Earth came to dominate the world's oceans.

An international research team found 425-million-year-old fossilized remnants of juvenile crinoids, a distant ancestor of today's sea lilies, encased in iron oxide and limestone in the Austrian Alps.

Researchers collected the rock from a formation on the border between Italy and Austria known as the Cardiola Formation, which was exposed in trenches dug during World War I.[…]

Cacique Caribe12 Apr 2017 10:14 a.m. PST

And who says nothing good ever comes from war? :)

Dan

Winston Smith12 Apr 2017 11:29 a.m. PST

Had they been discovered in 2017, "they" would have had to call off the war.

JSchutt12 Apr 2017 12:24 p.m. PST

How many other fossilized remains that were blown to smitheroons is yet to be determined….

zoneofcontrol12 Apr 2017 4:39 p.m. PST

Winston-
When I first read "WWI trenches" and then read dateline "Columbus, OH", I thought maybe they had to move the war because of the find.

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